Independent Creative Studio
Games, stories, paper, and imagined worlds.
Enter the StudioBetween worlds is where the wonder begins.
At the crossing between craft and story, reflection and play, the practical and the imagined, ideas gather from both banks and become something new.
The Work
Card Game
Terrain, seasons, and celestial balance.
Card Game
Forage the ancient forest. Gather what heals.
Reflection Instrument
A lens and mirror for the inner life.
Paper & Print
Paper worth keeping.
Novel
A story still growing beneath the roots.
The Workshop
Some things take longer to cross the threshold. They belong here until they're ready.
Irreverent living gifts. Obscure succulents, humor as the entry door, wonder as the destination.
Modular miniature living worlds: real moss, real stone, real light. Seven biomes, starting with The Hollow. (Lives within Root Awakenings.)
A space game. The frontier between law and freedom, empire and open sky.
The Maker
BridgeTender Studio is the independent creative workshop of Marc Simmons.
Across education, games, paper, psychology, and design, his work has taken many forms. This studio gathers those forms under one roof.
Marc is a lifelong educator and coach. Shepherding people across thresholds is his life pattern. This studio is the same work, just in different materials.
Some projects became businesses. Some became playable worlds. Some are still on the workbench.
The materials change. The curiosity remains.